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I believe sound moral choices to also be practical and generally serve one's own life.  One cannot prosper in the free market of life without peacefully meeting others needs.  The conventional wisdom holds that somehow immoral choices can make you a rich greedy happy king, but that does not tend to pan out in the long run.  So the question becomes what is it that walls people off from hearing us and incorporating libertarian ideas into their own thinking when this knowledge could be of great benefit to them?

This story speaks for itself, I need not say anymore than that!

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/burpengary-state-school-de...

This is the story that sparked the suspensions and investigations. Again nuff said!

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/school-principal-investigated-over-cl...

Peace

*mothdog*

This story made me laugh!

Apparently two Australian Census workers were captured and tied up by some armed robbers whilst going about their gubment sanctioned 'business'.

I kept thinking of the ppl that'd get fined because the gubment 'grim reapers' hadn't been by their frontdoor by the due date...This is an emerging story, will post link when it becomes available.

*Peace*

mothdog

Summer of 1981, there was a royal wedding, economic woes & rioting in the inner cities.

Summer of 2011, there’s been a royal wedding, economic woes & now rioting in the inner cities.

Other then The Specials not being at number one with a critique of how things were back in 1981, the major difference between things in 1981 & 2011 is that the rioting happening isn’t now just occurring in the inner cities.

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I'd like to believe one owns themselves.

The problem is people often ask who says that one owns their own body?

Though i have pointed out to people that if one doesn't believe in self ownership then its allowing others to lay claim to your body & that is the slippery slope towards slavery, people don't seem to buy that it.

They persist in the question of who says you own your own body?

Anybody have any thoughts?

http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2011/08/communist-party-usa-en...

I've always wondered if the US Communist Party is a put up job by the CIA to discredit Democrats they don't like

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Congress has failed to re-authorize the working budget of the FAA. This implies as of Monday, the FAA is operating only on a skeleton crew. The biggest thing most vacationers were looking towards was a tax vacation. When the power expired, however, airlines hiked their costs. This implies most air travelers will not see any price drop. Frequent fliers may still need installment loans to get anywhere.

No more FAA

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/02/louis-magazzu-nj-politici_n_916602.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl14%7Csec3_lnk2%7C83026

A disgraced local politician in New Jersey is considering legal action against a politcal opponent afterhe captured nude images of himself on his blackberry and sent to women that had requested the images.  The political opponent posted them on his blog, and apparently asked the women to solicit the NJ politician's nude images.

Now the NJ freeholder is considering using the guns of government to punish the publisher.

[quote=Beth DeFalco of the Huffington Post]

Yesterday at work, my colleague invited me to take a quiz on civics.  He reported his score as being 54%. 

The quiz is given by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and even posts the scores of politicians, and average joes so you can compare.

I invite you all to take the quiz, but beware, I did get a question wrong, but I feel like my answer is pretty much the same answer as the one that was stated to be correct.

Here's a link to the quiz:

http://www.isi.org/quiz.aspx?q=FE5C3B47-9675-41E0-9CF3-072BB31E2692

On my journey to libertarianism, many people have influenced me.   But I owe one person a special mention.  Howard Katz was an author and publisher of an investment newsletter.  He wrote a few books in the '70's.    One book of his I happened to pick up around 20 years ago was "The Warmongers".  The book was part history lesson and part economics lesson.  It was there where I first saw the name, Murray Rothbard.  From there, a whole new world was opened up to me.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-14344199

A blogger was jail today for threatening to murder (or encourage others to commit murder) MPs who voted in favour of the invasion of Iraq.

He was also convicted of other terrorist offensces but was convicted of solitoring murder due to what he said on some blog & that does raise questions about freedom of speech & how serious one should take the crap many people spout off as a means of venting etc.

I had a phone call from my friend Ed Joyce this morning & one of the things he said to me is that he reckoned the internet gives a misrepresentation of libertarianism.

I said that it felt as if the anarcho-capitalism strain of libertarianism had become the far more dominant strain of libertarianism & he said that that might be the case online but not elsewhere.

He actually challenged me as to when had a last met up with a group of libertarians & I said I couldn’t remember & I can’t remember the last time I met up with a group of libertarians.

Obviously Ed being a georgist is going to favour there still being government & so might very well say that the small government strain is more dominant when it comes to the world offline.

Over at ThomHartmann.com (I got back on after being banned for asking tough questions), many Progressives prattle on about how prosperous we were under high marginal tax rates during Ike's regime.  So I issued them a challenge.  I'll take Ike's tax rates but we have to get the whole package.  No Medicare and Medicaid.  No EPA.  No Depts. of Ed, Homeland Security, etc.  No Civil Rights Acts, etc.

They erroneously think that the amount of taxes brought in is the measure of taxation in an economy.  Spending is the true measure of taxation.  That is why we were more prosperous under Ike's less than $100B budgets. 

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For those of you who don't know Joel Skousen, he is a political analyst, friend and support of Ron Paul and a designer of high security residences and retreats.  He is critical of his fellow Mormons Jon Huntsman and Mitt Romney.  I've heard him on at least one podcast.  So maybe Gard can try to get him on.

Here is his take on the current debt ceiling issue.  He makes a point overlooked by nearly all.

http://traffic.libsyn.com/ftl/FTL2011-06-19.mp3 I appear about an hour five minutes in

I've never liked speaking in public, I especually don't like doing so now & so this will be the last time I'll be doing so.

Unless Gard wants to do a podcast on the Russell Reid case.